Hi
My husband was diagnosed by phone out of the blue on 14th December of possible lung cancer, which after a biopsy was indeed small cell lung cancer, we kept it to ourselves over Christmas so we didn't spoil anyone else's, and only told close family as we needed to focus and process everything ourselves, my husband already had emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis and went for his normal lung function tests in October, he'd been ill at the time and his breathing was quite bad, we didn't see his normal consultant, but the one we did see booked a routine scan for March 2024, I asked at the time if we should be worried enough to bring this forward as his health/ breathing we're bad, but was told no, leave it until March, however during the next few days I thought otherwise and made an appointment with our GP, who arranged a scan, the next contact was 14th December from his normal lung consultant who asked if anyone had contacted us, regarding the scan, he was surprised that no one had, and then gave us the news of 10cm mass on my husbands left lung, the rest is history, im just so angry at the moment that time was wasted from our October appointment where this could potentially have been picked up and treatment started, we've been backwards and forwards to GP with chest pains etc and I actually said in October " no one is joining up the dots" sorry for the rant I'm not in a good frame of mind today, it's all still a big nightmare,irs like we're in a parallel world, I wake up every morning wondering if I've dreamt it all, then realise nope it's real, and it's horrendous!
